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Strong's #2693 - καταστρώννυμι
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- to strew over (the ground)
- to prostrate, slay, (cf to lay low)
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κατα-στρώννῡμι,
also κατα-ύω LXX Job 12:23, Mitteis Chr. 31 viii 18 (ii B.C.): fut. - στρώσω: — Pass., fut. - στρωθήσομαι LXX Ju. 7.14: aor. - εστρώθην (v. infr.): —
I spread out, κλίνην Hierocl. p.63 A.
II spread over, cover, οἶκον.. ῥόδοις Ael. VH 9.8: — Pass., πεδίον νεκρῶν κατεστρώθη was strewed with.., D.S. 14.114; σκορπίων κανθήλιον -εστρωμένον Str. 14.2.26.
III
1. lay low, δάμαρτα καὶ παῖδ' ἑνὶ κατέστρωσεν βέλει E. HF 1000, cf. X. Cyr. 3.3.64: — Pass., ὡς δὲ Ἕλλησι κατέστρωντο οἱ βάρβαροι Hdt. 9.76, cf. 8.53, 1 Corinthians 10:5. layer, in Pass. of vines, Gp. 5.17.11.
2. βοτάνιον κατὰ τοῦ ἐδάφους -εστρωμένον prostrate, Dsc. 2.130.
καταστρώννυμι: 1 aorist passive κατεστρωθην; to strew over (the ground); to prostrate, slay (cf. our to lay low): 1 Corinthians 10:5 (A. V. overthrown). (Numbers 14:16; Judith 7:14 Judith 14:4; 2 Macc. 5:26, etc.; Herodotus 8, 53; 9, 76; Xenophon, Cyril 3, 3, 64.)
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καταστρώννυμι is used of ";spreading"; or ";laying";dust in P Tor I. 1viii .18 (B.C. 117–6) μεταφέροντας αὐτοὺς κονίαν καταστρωννύειν ἐπὶ τοῦ δρόμου τοῦ Ἄμμωνος : cf. Aristeas 319 τρικλίνου πᾶσαν κατάστρωσιν. For the derived sense of ";overthrow,"; ";prostrate,"; as in 1 Corinthians 10:5, see P Leid Cii. 28 (B.C. 163–2) (= I. p. 119) καταστροννύει (l.—ωννύει) αὐτή [ν, ";prosternit ipsam"; (Ed.).
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